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🚢 🇵🇦 🌎The low water in the Panama Canal is reducing the number of transits in half.
🔶️ Two of the major three container alliances had announced a diversion from Asia to the US East Coast by shifting their ships from Panama to the Suez.
📎 Sal Mercogliano
🔶️ Two of the major three container alliances had announced a diversion from Asia to the US East Coast by shifting their ships from Panama to the Suez.
📎 Sal Mercogliano
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🔋 ⛏️🚗 Visualizing the World’s Largest Lithium Producers
https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-the-worlds-largest-lithium-producers/
https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-the-worlds-largest-lithium-producers/
— This is likely one of the largest solar radio events ever recorded.
Radio communication interference with aircraft were reported by multiple NWS Center Weather Service Units (CWSU) co-located at FAA facilities. "
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🔗 NOAA Space Weather (@NWSSWPC)
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⚡️🇪🇬 Regarding Egypt and the shenanigans occurring at the mouth of the Red Sea.
Comparing the figures regarding the Suez Canal in November and in December, things are not looking too good.
In November of 2023, 2,264 vessels passed through the Suez Canal, while in October, 2,345 passed, that means a decrease of over 81 ships, and in terms of revenue, the revenues in November amounted to 854.7 Million US dollars, while the revenues in October amounted to 880.1 Million US dollars, a decrease of over 3% and 25.4 million US dollars less compared to the previous month.
To the blind man, it is obvious that the losses recorded in December will be much more severe than the decrease noted in November, and that, is bad news, because the Suez Canal is practically a main life artery for the Arab Republic of Egypt, economically speaking, as the 10 billion US dollars or so gained from the Suez Canal is one of the few reliable methods of gaining hard, foreign currency.
Egypt militarily did not involve itself much in the war in Yemen, our only real action was back at 2015, when the Egyptian navy bombarded Yemen after the Houthis ominously stated that they had Anti-Ship missiles and were capable of using them, since then, we have barely involved ourselves in the conflict, and we always kept pushing for peace and reconciliation, as war, contrary to popular belief, is bad for business in this specific case.
@themediterraneanman
Comparing the figures regarding the Suez Canal in November and in December, things are not looking too good.
In November of 2023, 2,264 vessels passed through the Suez Canal, while in October, 2,345 passed, that means a decrease of over 81 ships, and in terms of revenue, the revenues in November amounted to 854.7 Million US dollars, while the revenues in October amounted to 880.1 Million US dollars, a decrease of over 3% and 25.4 million US dollars less compared to the previous month.
To the blind man, it is obvious that the losses recorded in December will be much more severe than the decrease noted in November, and that, is bad news, because the Suez Canal is practically a main life artery for the Arab Republic of Egypt, economically speaking, as the 10 billion US dollars or so gained from the Suez Canal is one of the few reliable methods of gaining hard, foreign currency.
Egypt militarily did not involve itself much in the war in Yemen, our only real action was back at 2015, when the Egyptian navy bombarded Yemen after the Houthis ominously stated that they had Anti-Ship missiles and were capable of using them, since then, we have barely involved ourselves in the conflict, and we always kept pushing for peace and reconciliation, as war, contrary to popular belief, is bad for business in this specific case.
@themediterraneanman
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📝 🇻🇪 🇬🇾 A cautionary reminder from history:
🔶️ On 1990-07-31, a meeting took place between Iraq and Kuwait in Saudi Arabia. Iraq stated that it would not use armed forces against Kuwait.
🔶️ Two days later, Iraq invaded Kuwait.
🔶️ Oil makes powerful people do crazy things.
🔶️ Guyana was of relatively little interest to Venezuela until the country began producing oil just four years ago. Since then, it has been a focal point.
🔶️ PS: The oil production is done offshore by vessels which can always depart.
🔶️ On 1990-07-31, a meeting took place between Iraq and Kuwait in Saudi Arabia. Iraq stated that it would not use armed forces against Kuwait.
🔶️ Two days later, Iraq invaded Kuwait.
🔶️ Oil makes powerful people do crazy things.
🔶️ Guyana was of relatively little interest to Venezuela until the country began producing oil just four years ago. Since then, it has been a focal point.
🔶️ PS: The oil production is done offshore by vessels which can always depart.
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📢 🇺🇸 🚢 White House spokeman to Shipping Companies on the threats in the Red Sea:
🔶️ "I would let these companies speak for themselves... They have to weigh the balance of risk and benefit of the transit of their ships all around the world."
ICS:
"States with influence in the region should, as a matter of urgency, work to stop the actions of the Houthis in attacking seafarers and merchant ships, and de-escalate what is now an extremely serious threat to international trade."
https://www.ics-shipping.org/statement/international-chamber-of-shipping-statement-on-the-red-sea-ship-attacks/
🔶️ "I would let these companies speak for themselves... They have to weigh the balance of risk and benefit of the transit of their ships all around the world."
ICS:
"States with influence in the region should, as a matter of urgency, work to stop the actions of the Houthis in attacking seafarers and merchant ships, and de-escalate what is now an extremely serious threat to international trade."
https://www.ics-shipping.org/statement/international-chamber-of-shipping-statement-on-the-red-sea-ship-attacks/
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☢️ 🇨🇳 🌊 Chinese researchers turn to seawater for nuclear fuel uranium
⬛️ Uranium ions float freely in the world's oceans at concentrations 1,000 times greater than ore deposits on land and serve as fuel for reactors.
🔶️ Researchers at the Northeast Normal University in China have successfully tapped seawater as a source of uranium, a widely used fuel for nuclear reactors. The approach could help fuel the transition to a carbon-free source of energy.
🔶️ Uranium fuel is extracted from its ore in various parts of the world. From here, the metal needs to be enriched to a level where it can used in a nuclear plant. The Nuclear Energy Agency, however, estimates about 4.5 billion tons of uranium floating around in seawater.
🔶️ This is 1,000 times the quantity of uranium estimated to exist in land deposits and serves as an unconstrained source of carbon-free energy if one could tap into this. The dissolved uranium exists in the form of uranyl ions in the seawater, and researchers Rui Zhao and Guangshan Zhu at the Northeast Normal University in China set about the difficult task of extracting them from seawater and developing a material to help them address the challenge.
https://interestingengineering.com/science/seawater-source-of-nuclear-uranium
⬛️ Uranium ions float freely in the world's oceans at concentrations 1,000 times greater than ore deposits on land and serve as fuel for reactors.
🔶️ Researchers at the Northeast Normal University in China have successfully tapped seawater as a source of uranium, a widely used fuel for nuclear reactors. The approach could help fuel the transition to a carbon-free source of energy.
🔶️ Uranium fuel is extracted from its ore in various parts of the world. From here, the metal needs to be enriched to a level where it can used in a nuclear plant. The Nuclear Energy Agency, however, estimates about 4.5 billion tons of uranium floating around in seawater.
🔶️ This is 1,000 times the quantity of uranium estimated to exist in land deposits and serves as an unconstrained source of carbon-free energy if one could tap into this. The dissolved uranium exists in the form of uranyl ions in the seawater, and researchers Rui Zhao and Guangshan Zhu at the Northeast Normal University in China set about the difficult task of extracting them from seawater and developing a material to help them address the challenge.
https://interestingengineering.com/science/seawater-source-of-nuclear-uranium
Interesting Engineering
Chinese researchers choose seawater for nuclear fuel uranium
Uranium extracted from seawater could be an unconstrained source of nuclear fuel, helping a well-tested carbon-free source of energy grow.
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NEW - China iPhone ban: Many Chinese agencies and government-backed firms across the country have ordered staff to stop bringing iPhones - Bloomberg
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NEW - Elon Musk in Italy: "Please don't import the woke mind virus" from America: "It divides people."
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While there is a surge in federated social media sites, like Bluesky and Mastodon, some technologists are hoping to take things further than this model of decentralization with fully peer-to-peer applications. Two leading projects, Spritely and Veilid, hint at what this could look like.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/meet-spritely-and-veilid
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/meet-spritely-and-veilid
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Spritely and Veilid: Exciting Projects Building the Peer-to-Peer Web
While there is a surge in federated social media sites, like Bluesky and Mastodon, some technologists are hoping to take things further than this model of decentralization with fully peer-to-peer
🇻🇦 Former Vatican official Angelo Becciu jailed for five-and-a-half years over corruption scandal
The charges focused on the purchasing of a showroom in London's Sloane Square formally used by Harrods, which was bought for €140m more than its market value - defrauding the Vatican.
The pope's former deputy secretary of state and nine others have been found guilty in the Vatican's biggest financial corruption scandal.
Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Vatican employees and two outside Italian brokers were among 10 defendants described by Vatican prosecutors as "actors in a rotten predatory and lucrative system".
https://news.sky.com/story/former-vatican-official-angelo-becciu-jailed-for-five-and-a-half-years-over-corruption-scandal-13031146
The charges focused on the purchasing of a showroom in London's Sloane Square formally used by Harrods, which was bought for €140m more than its market value - defrauding the Vatican.
The pope's former deputy secretary of state and nine others have been found guilty in the Vatican's biggest financial corruption scandal.
Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Vatican employees and two outside Italian brokers were among 10 defendants described by Vatican prosecutors as "actors in a rotten predatory and lucrative system".
https://news.sky.com/story/former-vatican-official-angelo-becciu-jailed-for-five-and-a-half-years-over-corruption-scandal-13031146
Sky News
Former Vatican official Angelo Becciu jailed for five-and-a-half years over corruption scandal
The charges focused on the purchasing of a showroom in London's Sloane Square formally used by Harrods, which was bought for €140m more than its market value - defrauding the Vatican.